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Category
Collection
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Material
Date

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

The New Great Western Timetable

1844

Silhouette of boy

1844-02-10

Six paper photographs by Robert Hunt

1844

Paper Photograph by Robert Hunt

1844

Folkestone to Boulogne steam ship service timetable

1843

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Wheatstone's original bridge

1843

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Electrical recording mercury-in-glass weather balloon thermometer, 1843

1843

Coloured engraving of Henson's Flying Machine Ariel

1843

Chess players

circa 1844

Benjamin Hick

1843

Abingdon Road Station, Oxfordshire

1844

Jump sector

1844

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

One coloured lithograph: 1st Henson's "Aerial"

1843

First Carriage, the Ariel

1843

First Carriage, the Ariel

1843

Der Luft-Dampf-Wagen

1843

First Carriage, the Ariel

1843

Inspector's stamp with 'K' above '4', used in Kesteven, Lincolnshire

1844

Ross's monocular microscope

1843

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500